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New comment by crapple8430 in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

crapple8430 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:24:05 +0000

Funny, on Linux I just use the special key (normally alt or super) to do all my window moving and resizing. It requires no precision at all and works even in tiling WMs without titlebars. I always found it weird Macos and Windows don't have this and it's a little painful to need to be precise with the mouse.

New comment by crapple8430 in "On privacy and control"

crapple8430 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:23:11 +0000

> What happens when

Not even this. If you do what OP says on the firefox, and turn on ResistFingerprinting, you'd be seeing many Cloudflare captchas a day. In effect it directly punishes you having any privacy or control. I wonder if they have an internal whitelist for employees? /s

New comment by crapple8430 in "On privacy and control"

crapple8430 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:21:09 +0000

They are separate but related concerns. Privacy is what you have (or don't have) right now. Control is what you can use to keep or throw it away in the future.

Apple gives you some privacy, better than most Android by default. But it gives you no control. If they decide you don't deserve privacy a year down the line, well, too bad.

New comment by crapple8430 in "On privacy and control"

crapple8430 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:16:08 +0000

It's very country dependent. In the US, I don't think many banks do that, but I heard in Europe this is used a lot more, presumably due to more regulatory bs.

It's worth noting GrapheneOS with the locked bootloader will meet basic integrity, and that's what most apps need anyway. Strong integrity requires a whitelisted OS by Google and hardware to support it, but there are many older devices that do not meet it, so it will likely inconvenience too many people to be enforced for now.

New comment by crapple8430 in "On privacy and control"

crapple8430 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:13:51 +0000

I wonder if it would be feasible to build an automated phone-using robot, and access it remotely for any kind of apps enforcing that type of crap. There is really nothing they can do in terms of device attestation to prevent it.

New comment by crapple8430 in "I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year"

crapple8430 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:09:02 +0000

Firefox sync clearly requires a central server. For any kind of peer to peer syncing to work you must have the machines on at the same time and accessible. And then there is the issue of NATs, including CGNATs. To work reliably these almost always have to have some kind of relays anyway (Tailscale's DERP, Syncthing also has relays).

For the experience an average consumer expects, you at a minimum need a central short-lived cache.

New comment by crapple8430 in "Self-hosting is being enshittified"

crapple8430 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:50:22 +0000

A powerful enough machine (usually limited by RAM, not CPU) will let you run a hypervisor OS like Proxmox which helps a lot with making things secure and flexible. You might also want to have RAID, ECC memory. It quickly starts to make sense to build a proper home server rather than cobbling together a bunch of low end hardware. The tipping point is probably when you want more than 1-2 hard drives worth of storage.

New comment by crapple8430 in "Self-hosting is being enshittified"

crapple8430 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:44:49 +0000

I don't really agree with this blog post; there is nothing enshittified about self-hosting.

But it does almost seems like there is a squeeze on general purpose computing from all sides, including homelab. The DRAM and SSD prices is just the latest addition to that. There's also Win 11 requiring TPM, which is not an bad thing by itself, but which will almost certainly take away the ability to run arbitrary OSes 5-10 years down the line on PCs. Or you'd still be able to boot them, but nothing will run on it without a fully trusted chain from TPM -> secure boot -> browser.

New comment by crapple8430 in "2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results"

crapple8430 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:18:11 +0000

The only way to avoid that is if that $100 buys you actual ownership, like the ability to have your own secure boot keys and modify the software. So long as Apple still owns your phone, they can alter the deal, and there is nothing you can do about it.

New comment by crapple8430 in "2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results"

crapple8430 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:15:55 +0000

This. If you pay them $100 for no ads, they'll just come back next quarter to ask for another $100, unless you actually own your device, i.e. are able to modify its software to actually enforce your rights.

New comment by crapple8430 in "UK to "encourage" Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones"

crapple8430 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:05:46 +0000

Or better, at the destination. If we just blind everyone, nudity ceases to be a problem.

New comment by crapple8430 in "UK to "encourage" Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones"

crapple8430 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:04:37 +0000

> a whole chain of removed software freedom

Indeed. But this already has happened for most people. All non-jailbroken iphones and most Androids cannot have their bootloader unlocked, and even if they can, the stuff you can run is often still substantially controlled by Google.

Though in theory this can also be done without involving the OS at the device driver level. It's not hard to imagine a CNN running inside your display controller to detect a bbox and blur out the nudity. It'd still suck and be a middle finger to the owner, but I don't feel like this is much worse than what's already there. Given the popularity of porn, I can easily imagine this sparking a general public sentiment against all this nonsense.

New comment by crapple8430 in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

crapple8430 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:02:45 +0000

Sovereignty also means responsibility. Either you have to keep your network secure, or you pay someone else do it (not always very well), otherwise you get security problems. Same goes for redundants backups, hardware maintenance, etc.

New comment by crapple8430 in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

crapple8430 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:59:14 +0000

You can run rclone every couple minutes on your NAS, it checks mtimes like rsync so it is reasonably efficient for most cases, though you may run into ratelimits with bigger data.

New comment by crapple8430 in "GPT-5.2"

crapple8430 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:39:37 +0000

GPT 5 Pro is a good 10x more expensive so it's an apples to oranges comparison.

New comment by crapple8430 in "I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop"

crapple8430 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:32:19 +0000

The perf delta is smaller than I thought it'd be given the memory bandwidth difference. I guess likely comes from the Blackwell having native MXFP4, since GPT-OSS-120b has MXFP4 MOE layers.

The NVLink is definitely a strong point, I missed that detail. For LLM inference specifically it matters fairly little iirc, but for training it might.

New comment by crapple8430 in "Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA"

crapple8430 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:54:08 +0000

And the driver will just carry two phones, and be even more distracted than before. Cool

New comment by crapple8430 in "I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop"

crapple8430 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:17:34 +0000

While this is undoubtably still an excellent deal, the comparison to the new price of H100 is a bit misleading, since today you can buy a new, legit RTX 6000 Pro for about $7-8k, and get similar performance the first two of the models tested at least. As a bonus those can fit in a regular workstation or server, and you can buy multiple. This thing is not worth $80k in the same way that any old enterprise equipment is not worth nearly as much as its price when it was new.

New comment by crapple8430 in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

crapple8430 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:14:31 +0000

I don't have one, but I suppose it would be just fine if you only use it for running a desktop environment.

New comment by crapple8430 in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

crapple8430 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:27:32 +0000

There are a lot of PC boards where the iGPU only has an HDMI 2.1 output, or with a DP1.4. But DP1.4 doesn't support some of the resolution/refresh combinations that HDMI 2.1 does. Normally this doesn't matter, but it could if you have, for example, the Samsung 57 inch dual 4K ultrawide.